Difference between "unrated" and "director's cut ?

When you make a movie and you want to distribute it to theaters across the US, you submit a copy to the MPAA for them to rate it. Many theaters won't play an unrated movie. The MPAA might rate it R, which means also that many theaters won't play it, plus the audience is more limited for those who do. So a lot of producers will cut a few shots out of the movie, often no more than 30 seconds total, to get the MPAA to give it a more family-friendly rating. The unrated movie is the same film with these shots restored. Usually they don't cut out whole scenes, just individual shots in those scenes.

A director's cut is something else. A director will sometimes make a movie three hours long and then the producers will cut it down to 100 minutes, because (again) theater owners don't like movies that are too long because they can't show them as many times per day. Sometimes there are controversial scenes that the producers will cut out, or something considered too sexy or violent.. So after the movie makes its run, they'll put out a DVD of the film the way the director wanted it to go.

These days I think most directors' cuts are fake. They're the movie with some footage restored that was cut out, so they're a bit longer, or a lot longer, but I don't think the director gets involved. Putting footage back in a movie can be very tricky and time-consuming, plus a great film editor has a different skill set than a director. I think it's just a commercial trick to re-market a film in a new way that people haven't seen.

Unrated means certain scenes were removed to give the movie a lower rating. Take for example removing more gore from Robocop to bring it down from X or NC-17 rating to give it an R rating.

Director cuts means that they removed scenes that didn't really affect the movie's rating, but were taken out due to shorten the movie's length or remove show or unnecessary scenes.

Star Wars: Attack of the Clowns -- I mean Clones where Obi Wan Kenobi went to a droid run archive, but was taken out when Ben Kenobi met an old friend and told him about the dart that killed the would be assassin and seemed uneccesary.

Director's cut is when a director wasn't able to cut it the way he/she wanted because the studio wanted a shorter version so it makes more money or whatever, and they recut it for the fans. ... "Director´s Cut" is how the director wants the movie. & "Unrated" is how the original movie should be.